Test Team Lead Ii

**Purpose of the Job**: - Define, measure and enforce quality through efficient test coverage and a traceability matrix. - Ensure pre-agreed test schedule with delivery managers are being met. - Ensure a suitable and stable test environment/lab. - Report and manage progress, issues, constraints, dependencies and resources. - Define and ensure continuous improvement. - Define, measure and manage each team member’s output aligned with the above. **Job Objectives**: **To manage test planning and analysis**: - Co-operate with clients/user/senior staff as required to agree the testing strategy to be employed for development projects - Co-ordinate all activity and all testers during each testing phase of a project/programme - Determine which tools and utilities work best for given situation/project - Develop, modify, and ensure that software testing plans are executed - Provide accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration - Initiate test planning activities - Represent the customer in understanding how they use the system and including the most relevant end to end user scenarios in test plans and automation. - Defining test strategy and test plans and reviewing them with stakeholders. - Identify the testing scope required for each release based on the requirements of the document. - Ensure optimal and improvement of test coverage - Identify the testing effort required by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the required effort for the same. - Identify the tools to be used for test reporting, test management, test automation, etc. and identify when test automation is appropriate and, if it is, plan the effort. - Estimate the testing resources and time required and negotiate with management to acquire the necessary resources. - Publish the test plan after discussions with the test team and have it reviewed and approved by the management/ development team. **To manage test design and execution**: - Analyse test results to ensure existing functionality; recommend corrective action - Integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harnesses. - Propose required functions, tools or scripts to management for approval based on complexity and coverage of solution - Update test execution status - Lead and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases and test procedures. - Ensure proper configuration management of the test ware produced and traceability of the tests to the test basis. - Manage the building of required test environments and ensure that the test environments are in place before test execution and managed during test execution. - Manage test environments, test devices and technology versions **To manage test monitoring and evaluation**: - Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics - Consult with developers to resolve issues and provide feedback for the technical appraisal of the tested software program(s) and monitor its deployment across the appropriate system(s) - Ensure that quality standards are maintained in the team **To manage test completion**: - Review software design and change specifications to ensure software testing measures meet acceptable reliability standards and project and program objectives - Trace test cases and results back to specific quality risks - Schedule the tests for execution and monitor, measure, control and report on the test progress, the s/w product quality status and the test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions. - Review new/modified tests and introduce improved testing techniques - Write and present summary reports on test status for each test execution cycles to the stakeholders and management. **Team Management**: - Allocate work to test team members based on the skills and abilities - Co-ordinate and interface with multiple functional groups and teams - Coach test team members to ensure that appropriate skills and behaviours are developed - Lead a team of quality analysts and testers including task identification, monitoring progress and issue resolution **Technical Test Process Management**: - Work closely with development and test to review use cases, requirements, workflows and technical specs needed to create automated scripts and tools - Work with the development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and other Development test objects. - Work with the Release Management team to create and maintain an automated nightly build verification ("smoke") test. **Test Lab Management**: - Update the weekly Test Store utilization sheet to ensure optimum lab asset utilisation - Create and maintain the lab asset planning schedule to ensure assets is available and in a working state - Use Network Monitoring Tools to ensure an always-on Test Environment/Lab Conduct quarterly lab asset stocktaking **Qualifications**: - Grade 12 Diploma or Degree qualified (IT o